Netflix’s redesigned Apple TV app is right here, and surprisingly it would not suck

Netflix’s redesigned tvOS Apple TV app has lastly launched after first showing on TV platforms like Samsung and LG a number of months in the past.

You may be questioning why I am writing a couple of Netflix app redesign, however I promise I’ve an excellent motive. Not like previous Netflix tvOS app facelifts, Model 3.0 is among the most important redesigns the streaming app’s Apple TV app has acquired in years, with a number of basic modifications to the way you navigate its menus.

Together with a extra fashionable, streamlined look with huge tiles that supply a wider preview of TV exhibits and flicks, the acquainted left-hand sidebar navigation system that is been round since 2018 is gone. As a substitute is a high menu that options Search, Residence, Exhibits, Video games, and My Netflix. It is a bit complicated at first, and since I am not a fan of change, I do not fairly prefer it but. That stated, I really feel prefer it may develop on me over the subsequent few weeks, because the navigation bar is now simpler to entry in a way.

Netflix says its new redesign options a greater suggestion system

The streaming platform goals to be extra customized

Different modifications embody My Life and My Netflix being merged below one choice to simplify the menu. On that notice, whereas the brand new huge tiles really feel like just a little an excessive amount of at first, the truth that they increase as you progress your cursor over them makes the general UI really feel much more fashionable.

Netflix says that the brand new design comes alongside an improved content material suggestion system that higher responds to “moods and pursuits within the second.” The brand new suggestion system has just a few extra labels, together with “latest” content material and the place a film or TV present is at present rating.

The streaming platform’s large tvOS redesign was announced back in May, nevertheless it’s solely being pushed out now. In the event you do not see the replace in your Apple TV, you’ll be able to obtain it manually from the App Retailer and choose Replace (I had to do that). It is unclear if Netflix has plans to carry this UI to extra platforms. I am unable to see it working nicely on iOS or Android given the feels prefer it was particularly designed particularly with giant screens in thoughts. The streaming large just lately added conversational generative AI search to its iOS app.